4)36 ME. E. I. POCOCK ON THE 



tarso-metatarsal spiue and an anterior and inferior spine at the 

 distal end of the tibia. 



Measurements in millims. of largest example. — Length 109, 

 width of head 8-5, of 1st tergite 10-8, of 12th 11, of 23rd 5 ; 

 length of antenna 31*5, of anal leg 33. 



Locality. Santa Lucia, Pond de Jacques (G. A. Bamage). 



Pive examples were obtained at the above locality. The ex- 

 ample of which the measurements are given above is the largest 

 of the five, and is, moreover, much larger than any previously 

 recorded example of this genus, or of Otocryptops. The second 

 measures 107 mm., the third 91, the fourth 69, and the fifth 60. 

 The third example is about the size of Newport's type, which 

 was recorded from Brazil. In addition to the specimens here 

 recorded the British Museum has one from Brazil that was 

 ticketed Miersii by Newport himself, and a second from Eio. 

 This is the first record of the genus from the West Indies. 

 Kohlrausch in 1881, in his ' Monograph of the Scolopendridse,' 

 referred this species to Otocryptops sexspinosus (Saj), but quite 

 wrongly, and Meinert in 1886 fell into the error of supposing 

 it to be the same as Ot. mexicanus of de Saussure. 



18 a. * ScoLOPOCEYPTOPS ANTiLLAEUM (MarsTi), Trans, ^nt. 

 Sac. 1878, p. xxxvii. 



This species was recorded from Martinique, but since its author 

 knew but little of the Scolopendridse, it need scarcely be added 

 that no opinion can be formed as to the validity of his species. 



19. Newpoetia LoifGiTAESis {Newport). 



Scolopocryptops longitarsis, Newp. Tr. Linn. Sac, xix. p. 407, pi. xl. 

 fig. 10 (1845). 



Newportia longitarsis, Gervais, Ins. Apt. iv. p. 298. 



Newportia longitarsis, Newport, Cat. Myr. Brit. Mus. p. 57 (1856). 



Not Newportia longitarsis, Bollman, P. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1888, pp. 337, 

 338. 



Colour ochraceous, head and maxiJlipes castaneous. 



Sead elongate, rounded posteriorly, without distinct sulci. 



AntenncB shortish, robust, densely pubescent, lineate at the 

 base. Maxillipedes with the anterior border of the coxae not 

 produced, nearly straight from side to side, with a very faint 

 notch in the middle line. First tergite furnished in its anterior 

 half with a transverse sulcus arched so as to form the segment 

 of a circle. The rest of the tergites quadrisulcate as in 

 Cryptops) the central area in addition marked each side w^'^ 



